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No, we didn't think for even a microsecond Steve Hamp was qualified to be the Chief of Staff for a Fortune 500 company. Yes, the man did a great job with a world-renowned institution, The Henry Ford Museum. But The Henry Ford's just that — a museum...a place that's got more to do with farmer's markets than Ford cars. A museum's a relic of the past...which if Hamp continued on his merry ways, FoMoCo would have quickly become just that. But again we find ourselves asking — anyone heard from Mark Fields lately? More »
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So Big Bill Boss is stepping aside (sorta) to let Alan Mulally take a shot at the helm of FoMoCo, but what's going to happen to Bill's hand-picked management team? He's elevated folks like Mark Fields to run NorAm operations, Anne Stevens to COO for the Americas, and he's even brought in folks like Steve Hamp as his Chief o' Staff. Hamp's prior job was a 27-year career at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI. Although that's not to say that Bill's Bold personnel Moves haven't been good ones — it's just an odd move to make a guy your CoS whose only experience has been running a museum. And as for Ford's CWFO (Chief Way Forward Officer) Fields, he's already laying down the spin, sending an e-mail late in the evening to all NorAm staff answering the burning question in everyone's mind: "how Alan's appointment affects the Way Forward plan and our efforts to accelerate our pace of progress throughout The Americas." And by answer it, we mean Fields answers with more of the same thing we've seen before, like: "In the meantime, nothing is more important than continuing to deliver our Way Forward plan - with more speed and a greater sense or urgency than ever." More »
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